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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Kuwait’s Jassim Transport buys 700-tonne Demag all-terrain crane

Kuwait’s Jassim Transport & Stevedoring has purchased a new nine-axle, 700-tonne capacity class, Demag AC 700-9 all-terrain crane, growing its Terex fleet to 25 cranes

EMC inaugurates desert testing facility for Mercedes-Benz trucks

Emirates Motor Company, the Abu Dhabi distributor for Mercedes-Benz, launches a Mercedes-Benz Trucks engine endurance testing facility – one of only 11 such centres the globe

Link-Belt Cranes appoints distributor for Egypt

Link-Belt Cranes partners with EGYMEC Engineering Company, a Cairo-headquartered division of the El Didi Group, as its distributor and service provider in Egypt

Volvo CE sees 34% rise in equipment sales in Q3 2017

Volvo Construction Equipment posts strong results for Q3 2017, with a 34% rise in sales, a 45% increase in orders, a 48% rise in deliveries, and improved profitability

Ford and Thermo King tout refrigerated Transit at Gulfood

Ford, working with RTS Thermo King and Al Tayer Motors, promises to bring greater efficiency to perishable logistics at food and beverage supply chain event

Caterpillar simplifies excavation product line, cuts cabin types

Caterpillar is reducing the number of cabin types across its whole excavator product line from 16 to three, allowing operators to switch models and size classes while still using the same controls

Volvo Buses launches 7900 Electric vehicles with extended range

Volvo Buses next gen all-electric bus, the Volvo 7900 Electric, boasts extended range with 150 kWh, 200 kWh and 250kWh battery units and two charging methods for greater operational flexibility

Morris Site Machinery launches ‘Halo’ anti-glare lighting tower

UK-based equipment manufacturer Morris Site Machinery debuts powerful anti-glare lighting tower lamp head hailed as a game changer for the industry

Dutch solar car emerges as net producer of energy

The World Solar Challenge in Australia, which saw 41 solar-powered vehicles compete over 3,000km, sees a Dutch entry emerge as the overall winner by generating spare energy

Himoinsa installs 48-hour standby power unit for Algerian water plant

Himoinsa delivers a standby generator capable of providing 48 hours of uninterrupted backup power for a municipal wastewater treatment plant for 260,000 people in Algeria

Volvo abandons efforts to divest government sales unit

Volvo Group discontinues attempts to divest itself of governmental sales business unit, after it began the process of seeking buyers for the division in November 2016

Raimondi Cranes appoints Middle East commercial manager

Raimondi Cranes, an Italian crane company owned by UAE-based KBW Investments, names Wael Hasan as its Dubai-based commercial manager for the region

Caterpillar to launch new excavator range in Middle East in Q2 2018

Caterpillar has expanded its hydraulic excavator range with the addition of three new models, which will be available in the Middle East in the second quarter of 2018

Etisalat showcases autonomous and connected vehicles at GITEX

UAE telecom provider Etisalat is using the GITEX Technology Week 2017 in Dubai to demonstrate its contribution towards Dubai’s ‘Autonomous Transportation Strategy’

Experts assess the impact of Dubai’s decree on standby power

Six months on from the power failure at the Dubai Mall, PMV Middle East asks Himoinsa, JCB Power Products and SDMO-dealer GENAVCO about the potential impact of Dubai’s genset decree

Al-Futtaim Motors opens first UAE hydrogen re-fuelling station

Al-Futtaim Motors opens the UAE’s first hydrogen re-fuelling station in partnership with France’s Air Liquide, as part of a pilot for the Toyota Mirai fuel cell vehicle

Featured Articles
	PMV Roundtable: Himoinsa, JCB & GENAVCO on temporary power PMV Middle East sits down with Himoinsa, JCB, and SDMO distributor GENAVCO to discuss the back up and temporary power industry, the segment’s key drivers and the future of the market
	Robot uprising: Swisslog on automation and robotisation in logistics PMV sits down with Swisslog’s Alain Khaddoum to discuss the advance of automation in logistics
	Hilti's Konstantin Fedin uses hand tool batteries to power a vehicle Konstantin Fedin demonstrates the power of Hilti’s cordless hand tool batteries by using them to power an electrified Hilti vehicle
	March of the apps: Yalla Pickup, Trukker and Trukkin on digital trucking PMV Middle East meets the men behind three startups, Yalla Pickup, Trukker and Trukkin, looking to storm the transport segment with their cloud-based service aggregation apps
	A lifting revolution: Wessel Helmens on Mammoet’s wind turbine cranes PMV Middle East catches up with Wessel Helmens, Mammoet’s director of innovations, to discuss the heavy lifter’s radical new proposal for wind turbine work

COMMENT

Breaking the loop of short-term budgeting and poor efficiency

How the short-term budgeting of project procurement impacts the efficiency of operations, and how systemic change is needed to break the vicious cycle

Joining the dots: on the rising interconnectivity of on-site equipment

PMV Middle East points to the growing signs of the increasing interconnectivity of plant, machinery and vehicles on the jobsite

	COVER STORY PMV Roundtable: Himoinsa, JCB & GENAVCO on temporary power
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Special Reports

	PMV Power List: Equipment manufacturers and dealers you should know
	Telescopic vision: the market and industry trends in telehandlers
	Material Handling: PMV talks growth in Middle East forklift markets
	Desert trailers: the market leaders in trailer and truck body building
	Top 10 plant, machinery and vehicles deals in the Gulf in H1 2017

Media

	Video: Toyota Mirai refuels at first UAE hydrogen station
	In Pictures: Caterpillar unveils next-gen hydraulic excavators
	Video: Volvo's emission-busting LNG-powered heavy truck
	In Pictures: Latest images of Abu Dhabi's Midfield Terminal project
	Video: The Gulf’s top 50 real estate developers of 2017

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